On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Calum Benson <calum.ben...@sun.com> wrote:
> > On 21 Jul 2009, at 08:55, Antonio wrote: > > I want to ask if the new menubars idea I proposed is still of interest >> or it is rejected if so why? >> > > Well, nobody here really has the power to accept or reject any ideas, we > can just comment on them and help people improve them as best we can :) > > Personally, I do still find it quite hard to envisage exactly how your > ideas will work, just from static screenshots and text descriptions. So it > might help if you could put together some kind of storyboard, animation or > interactive mockup (e.g. in DHTML), or find somebody who can do that for > you, to help us a bit more. > > For something that fundamentally changes such a long-established part of > the desktop, I also suspect it would take a lot of cycles of usability > testing and refinement to get it right -- consider the amount of usability > resources, thought and effort that was put into the ribbons feature of > Microsoft Office 2007 and subsequent MS apps, for example, which targets a > similar sort of area to your proposal... > > <http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/pages/table-of-contents.aspx> > Ok you are right. I thought about such kind of think but I never had the time or the knowledge to achieve it. I will try to make a video demonstration of the effects and the usability advantages of this new method. It might take a while as I will have to learn compositing with blender but when I'm ready the m-list will know ;) -- A.K.
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